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J.K. Rowling is a welfare success story.

She lived on government assistance for years as a single mother before Harry Potter made her a billionaire and she seems pretty damn grateful for those benefits.

In fact, the successful author revealed (above) she pays "a lot of tax" on her fortune to the English government, but doesn't mind! She actually feels indebted to the system that provided for her and her child when nobody else would and told Jon Stewart:

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The numbers are in!

How do U think J.K. Rowling's newest book, The Casual Vacancy: A Story That Is Not Harry Potter, did after just being released this past Thursday??

If your answer is "worse than expected" we're no longer on speaking terms! Plus you're wrong!

The Causal Vacancy EXCEEDED expectations!!

In the United States the book sold

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Nothing magical about this!

Followers of a popular South Asian religion are VERY offended by J.K. Rowling's description of a one of their own in The Casual Vacancy.

Sikh leaders are super pissed that the Harry Potter penner portrays a Sikh girl as “mustachioed yet large-mammaried."

A spokesman for the group explains that J.K.'s description of the girl is insulting to those who follow the faith, because:

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Ahh!! Our heads are swelling with SO much J.K. Rowling information, explosion is imminent!!

During her current promotional tour for Casual Vacancy, her new, non-Harry Potter book for adults, J.K. Rowling revealed she is not completely finished with her Harry Potter world, and is considering making a whole new series of books featuring new magical/muggle characters!!

The masterful author divulged:

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Wow — the days of Harry Potter truly are gone!

J.K. Rowling's new book, The Casual Vacancy, will be tackling one of the worst kinds of addiction… heroin addiction!

It's being called:

"a story of class warfare set amid semi-rural poverty, heroin addiction, and teen-age perplexity and sexuality."

Apparently it draws heavily from Rowling's own experiences

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E.L. James' 50 Shades of Grey has become the best-selling British book of all time and even blew Harry Potter out of the water.

But that doesn't mean Potter's creator has also been whipped into the frenzy!

Despite the record-breaking sales figures, J.K. Rowling doesn't really give a damn and doesn't have any desire to waste her time on the guilty pleasure!

In a recent interview, the world-famous author revealed,

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WHAT CONFUNDUS CHARM IS THIS?!

It seems J.K. Rowling is keeping the spirit of Harry Potter alive and frolicking free among the trees in her expansive, Scottish backyard!

Apparently the Mother Muggle has been planning on building Hogwarts-inspired tree houses for her two young children, David (9) and Mackenzie (7), for quite some time, but Rowling only recently acquired building approval from the Edinburgh planning committee after grumblings from her neighbors held up construction.

Plans for the impressive tree houses (below) show each child will have their own

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